Who we are?
ResolveTrash2Cash is a registered micro small enterprise in the ‘Art of Recycling’, based on the cyclic design for sustaining circular economic intervention, an urban climate initiative of the South Asian Forum for Environment, SAFE, [www.safeinch.org] commenced in the year 2011.
The enterprise specializes in creating and offering a variety of different range of green lifestyle utility products and services, giving new life to waste. It incorporates design solutions for waste challenges, with innovations in building green businesses.
The enterprise works towards the promotion of sustainable consumption and production creating entrepreneurship opportunities for unemployed women and youth.
Key Purposes:
- To bring business values, including merit of the product, innovations, and client services remains the prime commitment of the enterprise.
- To encourage diversification in recycled product range and handcrafted items, and promote eco-friendly utility products mainly.
- The business values include robust teamwork and responsible business leaders bound by trust and integrity.
- The enterprises shall value greater partnership, dignity, respect, honesty, commitment, transparency, accountability, ethical behavior, and integrity, embedded in the central tenet of the enterprise.
Mission
To be the first choice of recycled micro-utility products and handicrafts made in India, establishing it as a brand POSITIVE Style, to promote sustainable and healthy lifestyle choices.
Vision
To evolve with innovation to build communities towards entrepreneurship in recycling art and artisanal products.
Activities and Outcomes:
- Creating opportunities, and income-generating work platforms for unemployed women and youth, by skill development, which facilitates an entrepreneurship journey.
- Bringing one of its kind recycling innovations into practice, offering a range of handcrafted eco-friendly utility products at an affordable price.
- The intervention transfers the technology of manufacturing biodegradable packaging materials through the built capacities of over 500 women beneficiaries towards entrepreneurship development.
Genesis
Towards a Sustainable Lifestyle ResolveTrash2Cash, a registered MSME is the upfront face of the waste recycling enterprise, which was initiated in the year 2011, by the South Asian Forum for Environment, SAFE as an urban climate initiative on integrated solid waste management. Over a decade, the project on ISWM much transformed into a community-based enterprise in the art of recycling. This has a commitment to the environment and an aspiration to develop green business by leveraging circular economic interventions and lifestyle. With the potential to emerge as a promising start-up enterprise, it suffered terrible setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Considering that many women are engaged in the recycling handicraft enterprise, this needed oxygen support to stand up again and revamp the total system with refreshed infrastructure to achieve its long-term skill development and livelihood opportunity with a sustainable program in coming years. ResolveT2C received substantial support from its partners for ramping up the infrastructure and advanced-level skill training for women and youth artisans. The program specializes in creating and offering livelihood opportunities for unemployed marginal women and youth in urban clusters. It focuses on creating and offering a variety of micro-utility household products reusing and recycling waste paper, textile wastes, and plastic through an entrepreneurship model. We gratefully thank the corporate partners for extending financial support to RT2C artisans in the Pandemic times, while it was facing its worst crisis due to lockdown, this timely support saves the aspirations of the first-generation artisans in the art of recycling.
Our Key Partner
We collaborate with four municipal corporations, and 17 corporate houses along with local CSO’s for implementing the project. Being an affiliate of the South Asian Forum for Environment, SAFE, ResolveT2C also has the leverage to network with international development leaders, UN organs, and Global Change Programs that not only help us to scale but also enrich our human resource potential.
The key partners are the municipal bodies, like Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporations, Rajpur Sonarpur Municipality, South Dum Dum Municipality, etc, Pollution Control Board, Indian Institute of Packaging, IIP, the corporate houses, Ericsson, DLF, Unitech, Vodafone, HSBC, Concentrix, etc. Public authorities like Kolkata Port Trust, Birla Industrial Technology Museum, Metro Railway, State Bank branches etc, also our partners are Embassies and Consulate offices, like US Consulate, German Consulate, French Embassy, etc and schools, institutes. RT2C replication in Bhutan supported by the Indian Embassy in Bhutan. And key support partner is the South Asian Forum for Environment, SAFE, a civil society organization.